The commercial street is very large, and when I walked side by side with him, I suddenly found that this street had never been a good place, and what remained in my impression was the scene of the past few years, but I didn't know that the street was still the original street, but the changes were amazing. There are many new stores that have changed the original old stores, there are all walks of life, I can't help but pause when I pass by a store, I have the impression that this was originally a Xinhua bookstore, but now it is called "Walking in the Clouds", and I can't tell what it is doing from the name of the store.

"What? Want to go inside? Zhou Yu asked.

I shook my head, "Let's go eat first." ”

and Zhou Yu walked into a shop with a side stove, a pot of chicken soup, half a chicken, two taels of beef, and some vegetables. It's a very simple dish, but it tastes very good, I asked Zhou Yu if he had eaten it before, and he said no, it was the first time.

After the checkout was over, I walked back, and passed by the "walking clouds", Zhou Yu walked in directly, and I had to follow up. However, I found that this was still a bookstore, or should I say that it was a bookstore, which changed the traditional model of the original bookstore, from the layout to the decoration became very literary and artistic, and also became an open leisure model similar to Bashan Book City, and even the water bar was imitated.

The scale may not be as large as Bashan, but in the past, it was almost full of people, some of them simply sat on the wooden steps and watched when they had no place, and some people sat on the ground.

After the advent of Bashan, I thought that it would drive the boom of the book industry, not only to subvert the original traditional model, but also to bring a new era of book reading. And this "walking in the clouds" is very close to Bashan, and I am afraid that a large number of people have come from the original Bashan. My heart tightened, and a thought crossed my mind.

Zhou Yu walked in the bookstore casually, occasionally flipping through the books on the book wall, like a very ordinary customer. When he finally stood still, he pulled out an ancient historical book, turned to me and proposed, "Won't you look for a book?" ”

At this time, Zhou Yu seemed to have a smile on his face, but in my opinion, it had a deep meaning, so he walked over and took a random copy and sat on the floor with him. I thought he was going to say something to me, but I didn't expect him to really hold the book and look at it seriously.

I looked down at the book in my hand and couldn't help but look at it - "What does love at first sight have?" Jia Ru, you don't have to read a book about this, just ask me directly. Zhou Yu next to me lazily teased me, and his eyes were still focused on his book, and he was the one who used two things.

"Look at yours, how can it be so wide." I didn't feel angry and went back, and he said that if he broke it, he would get up and put it back, and neither would he continue to look at it. With an empty hand, he took the book away, and he stuffed the ancient historical book in his hand into my hand, "Look at mine." I looked down and scanned the page, and saw that I had turned to "Zhuangzi Shanmu" during the Warring States Period.

After reading this, I raised my head and looked at him suspiciously: "The praying mantis catches the cicada and the yellow finch is behind?" ”

The page that Zhou Yu turned is exactly this story, and I don't believe it if he doesn't mean anything about it. I saw him throw the book in his hand to the ground and say, "This is a cicada." Then he bent his fingers on the ground and said, "This is the praying mantis, and the one in your hand is the yellow finch." The person who benefits the most in this chain is the one who lays out this game of chess. ”

"You mean ......"

Zhou Yu stopped me with his eyes, "Let's go." ”

It wasn't until I got back to the car that I asked, "Is there a problem with that bookstore?" ”

He said to me noncommittally, "Tell me what you had planned." ”

What do I envision? I felt that he had probably guessed it, and there was no need to hide it, so I spread out my suspicions about Xiao Dong and told him all about the conversation with Xiao Dong just now.

After listening to this, he looked at me with an idiotic eye: "Did you question me like this?" It's impossible for anyone to admit this, why didn't you learn anything Tang Jin taught you, did you panic when you bumped into Xiao Dong? ”

"Who said that? I deliberately provoked the question in order to see his reaction, no matter how deep he was, human instinctive reactions could not deceive people. Recently, I've been learning psychology from Tang Jin. ”

"Do you see something?" He asked me with an eyebrow.

I hesitated to state my judgment: "Judging from the reaction he gave, it doesn't seem like the pusher." ”

Zhou Yu smiled, "Jia Ru, didn't you go around in a circle to rule him out of suspicion." ”

I frowned, and was about to distinguish when I heard him say again: "But Xiao Dong's suspicion can basically be ruled out." Hearing him say this, he withdrew the words that came to his lips and waited for his next words.

"I don't know what kind of person this person is, what I see is the maximization of profits. As you said, if Xiao Dong is the mastermind, the value of the benefits he can get in this incident is at most to solve the hatred in my heart, and the cost he has to pay is to buy Qian Huijuan, and then buy He Xiangjie, and even spend a lot of money to promote online public opinion, buy a water army, and so on. Obviously, the cost is not proportional to the benefit return, and a person with such a deep heart will never do something that does not have benefits. ”

I have to admit that Zhou Yu's inference is very reasonable.

This is also the confusion I was thinking about Xiao Dong's motive, did he really hate Zhou Yu for coming to such a field, so much so that he wanted to attack the book city at all costs? If it is said that I was jealous and resentful of Zhou Yu because of me, it may be possible, but this hatred is not enough to support Xiao Dong's irrational behavior.

"So that bookstore just now is the biggest possibility for you?"

A faint smile appeared on the corner of Zhou Yu's lips, "Do you know why I'm late in the morning?" Because I've been wandering around here for the past few days, shopping from shop to store, whether it's a bookstore, a drink shop, a restaurant, or even a game arcade, I've been there. I've been bored lately, who let my book city collapse? ”

I could hear him say, "What did you find?" ”

He shook his head at me, "It's not about discovering something, it's about hearing something." In fact, we are often blinded by what our eyes see, but we don't know that there are some things that our ears can't cover. For example, if I go to a certain restaurant to eat, some of the customers there will say that the food in this restaurant is better than which one; For example, when I went to Starbucks to order a cup of coffee, some people in the queue would say that the coffee drink in Bashan Night Rain was also very good, but it was a pity that Nabashan was closed. ”

When I heard that Bashan Night Rain was mentioned, I couldn't help but feel a little emotional. It turns out that some people are also worried about the drink they created, but if it weren't for the promotion of it by Bashan Book City, and just the small shop near the apartment was running, how many people would remember?

"I'm just one or two examples, these restaurants can be excluded from food and beverages, and they have no vital interest in the bookstore. Clothing stores can also be excluded, and the nature of catering, there will be three kinds of industries left: one is a beverage store, the second is a children's paradise, and the third is a bookstore. ”

Just now he took me into a bookstore, could it be that he has locked one of the three choices as a bookstore?

But why does it have to be a bookstore? In my opinion, it is unlikely that there will be a beverage store, as cafes such as Starbucks and drinks selling milk tea have their own fields, and the night rain in Bashan has definitely not affected them to the extent, and it would be too early to plan for a rainy day. And I think children's themed parks are more suspicious, because the advent of Bashan Book City has led to the elimination of the original children's parks in this commercial circle.

Although Bashan Book City is the name of parent-child education, in fact, it has children's play facilities downstairs, and the air pavilion is aimed at children's entertainment and education behavior, and no matter how big the children are, there are books in the children's area to read.

Therefore, it includes almost all ages of children and teenagers, and the only people who will go to the surrounding built-in children's places are basically those who have already applied for a card and are reluctant to give up. And this group of people will eventually be occupied by Bashan Book City.

But Zhou Yu still shook his head: "It's not." ”

"Why? If it is said that the interests are relativized and Bashan has fallen, aren't these children's playgrounds the direct beneficiaries? ”

"You come with me." Zhou Yu got out of the car again and took me back to the business district.

We came to a children's playground, which was the traditional type of play in the ocean ball. It's more than two o'clock in the afternoon, and the flow of people in the commercial area is usually good at this time, but there are only three or two children playing in this children's playground, and the staff are idle.

Zhou Yu took me to another house, and the same situation was similar in that house.

As I walked back, he asked me, "Have you ever wondered why?" ”

I wondered, business is really not my forte, it stands to reason that the business of these establishments has become depressed due to the influence of the book market, and now that the book store is closed, it should be booming again, why is it still so depressed?

Zhou Yu said: "It is people's thinking that is changing, just like it is easy to go from thrift to luxury, and it is difficult to go from luxury to thrift." When people enjoy high-grade services, there will be comparisons when they return to low-grade places, and the latter is not worth it. ”

So even if the book city falls, this children's playground will not be the biggest beneficiary.

There are three options, and now only the revamped bookstore remains. We have been there just now, and it is not an exaggeration to describe it as "a market", if it is really from the direction of the greatest interest considered by Zhou Yu, then only this bookstore is the biggest beneficiary.

Then I want to ask about the entire business district, is there only this bookstore that "walks in the clouds"?

Zhou Yu opened the map with his mobile phone and entered the bookstore, and there were three bookstores nearby on the map, scattered in three points in the southeast, east and west.

I looked up in surprise: "These three are chain bookstores, the same boss?" ”

Zhou Yu pursed the corners of his lips and showed a mocking smile, "Otherwise, how can you have the strength to compete with my Bashan?" ”

I couldn't help but sigh, "How did you notice that?" He glanced at me, "Are you listening to me carefully, didn't I just say it, I've been walking around the neighborhood lately, and I naturally saw it when I walked around." ”

Mo looked at him, and it was clear that he wasn't wandering around aimlessly, in fact he was investigating.

There are things in his blood, so he is sharper than anyone else, and he divides and sifts through a wide range of categories, and finally finalizes this bookstore chain.